Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry

by Courtney Meunier | Mar 25, 2021 | Adult Fantasy, Adult Historical Fiction, ARC, Book Review, Bookish Blog, Featured

By C. M. Waggoner The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry (ARC Review) A little whimsical, slightly sweet, and somewhat odd, The Ruthless Ladies Guide to Wizardry is a lovely little tea cake of a book.  Part historical fantasy and part romance with a hint of...

Plain Bad Heroines ARC Review

by Courtney Meunier | Dec 17, 2020 | Adult Fiction, Adult Historical Fiction, ARC, Book Review, Bookish Blog, Featured, Horror

By Emily M. Danforth Plain Bad Heroines (ARC Review) Half horror and half historical fiction, Plain Bad Heroines follows the parallel storylines of the deaths at Brookhants School for Girls in 1902 and their connection to the scandalously sapphic bestselling memoir of...

Ziggy, Stardust and Me Review

by Courtney Meunier | Jul 25, 2020 | Book Review, Bookish Blog, Featured, YA Historical Fiction

By James Brandon Ziggy, Stardust and Me (Review) Part journal, part poetry, and part stardust-shimmering dream, Ziggy, Stardust and Me is the story of a boy who loves Bowie, boys, and his best friend/bad-ass feminist icon Starla.  A snapshot into the ’70s as...

The Mall ARC Review

by Courtney Meunier | Jul 21, 2020 | ARC, Book Review, Bookish Blog, Featured, YA Historical Fiction

By Megan McCafferty The Mall (ARC Review + Blog tour stop) A heavy dose of early-’90s nostalgia, “The Mall” takes us back into a time period when six-thousand square feet of stores could provide the setting for a teenager’s entire social life, including...

Shadowplay ARC Review

by Courtney Meunier | Jun 16, 2020 | Adult Fiction, Adult Historical Fiction, ARC, Book Review, Bookish Blog, Featured

By Joseph O’Connor Shadowplay The most authentically classic-sounding novel written in modern-day that I’ve ever read, Shadowplay is an immersive experience for those fascinated with Bram Stoker and the historical context surrounding Dracula. Written as if a...